THE first of the life-boat broadcasts in 1952 was in Children's Hour, on the 25th of January. It was in a series called " I'm Proud of My Father,' and the narrator was Miss May New- lands, daughter of Coxswain Duncan Newlands, of Campbeltown, who won the bronze medal for gallantry in 1942 and again in 1946. The broad- cast was written by Mrs. Angus Mac Vicar, in a series of "dramatised episodes" in which the coxswain himself appeared, describing some of the exciting rescues carried out by the Campbeltown life-boat.

The second broadcast was on the 19th of March, and again it was in the Children's Hour. It was called "Down the Slipway." In it Mr.

Barrie Edgar interviewed Coxswain Denis Price of Margate, who, eight months later, was to win the Institu- tion's silver medal for gallantry. The broadcast ended with the sound of the maroons and the launch of the life- boat.

On the 16th of October the Life-boat Service appeared as the third in a series of broadcasts by Mr. Stephen Grenfell, produced by Mr. R. D. Smith, called "Special Duty." The first was on the work of the railway breakdown gang, and the second on the treatment of children who have been burnt through carelessness with fires in their own homes. The third, "Rescue by Life-boat," was a service by the Walmer life-boat to a steamer wrecked on the Goodwin Sands.

On Christmas Day the B.B.C. broad- cast in "Christmas Round Britain" the annual carol-singing by members of the Mousehole Fishermen's Choir, and Miss Margaret Drew, the daughter of the motor mechanic of the Penlee life-boat, over the life-boat's radio telephone to the three keepers of the Wolf Rock Lighthouse off Land's End..